Re: [PATCH V2 06/15] perf tools: fix parse_events_terms() freeinglocal variable on error path

[Adrian Hunter]

On 27/06/13 19:13, David Ahern wrote:
> On 6/27/13 1:54 AM, Adrian Hunter wrote:
>> The list_head is on the stack, so just free the rest of the list.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>   tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 7 ++++++-
>>   tools/perf/util/parse-events.h | 1 +
>>   tools/perf/util/pmu.c          | 2 +-
>>   3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
>> index 995fc25..d9cb055 100644
>> --- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
>> +++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
>> @@ -1231,12 +1231,17 @@ int parse_events_term__clone(struct
>> parse_events_term **new,
>>               term->val.str, term->val.num);
>>   }
>>
>> -void parse_events__free_terms(struct list_head *terms)
>> +void parse_events__free_terms_only(struct list_head *terms)
>>   {
>>       struct parse_events_term *term, *h;
>>
>>       list_for_each_entry_safe(term, h, terms, list)
>>           free(term);
>> +}
>> +
>> +void parse_events__free_terms(struct list_head *terms)
>> +{
>> +    parse_events__free_terms_only(terms);
>>
>>       free(terms);
>>   }
> 
> Seems like you can just fix parse_events__free_terms to do the right thing
> and not call free(terms) -- ie., no need for a separate "only" function.
> From there only test_term() needs to do the free(terms) and since it mallocs
> the memory there it is nicely symmetrical.

There are 2 more calls to parse_events__free_terms in util/parse-events.y

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